March 2010
22 posts
API updates
The Dashboard and Likes APIs now include:
A tumblelog element on each post with its tumblelog’s information and avatar.
Information about originating posts for reblogs.
You can now get the source code of your custom themes, custom CSS, and tumblelog descriptions from the /api/authenticate action by passing include-theme=1 with the other variables.
Pages can now be read from the...
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It's Tumblr Tuesday!
Suggest a new category for the Tumblr Directory!
The Tumblr Directory has over 40 categories, but it’s still not complete. What are we missing? If you’d like to suggest a new category and can recommend 10 exceptional Tumblr blogs that would go in it, we’d love to hear from you. Contact editors@tumblr.com with your recommendations.
Today’s Tumblr Tuesday is brought to you...
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The theme preview on the Customize page now renders:
Submit links
Ask links
Links to Pages
Pagination
High-res Photo styles
Audio post album art
Please let us know if any other theme features would be helpful in the preview!
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It's Tumblr Tuesday!
Whoa, you guys — I just got internet back after almost two whole hours of downtime! Has everything changed? I have so many questions, but the important one is: Does society still wholeheartedly agree that kittens are cute?
Here are some awesome Tumblr blogs that make us glad to have working internets.
Halfway Cinema
If you ever wondered what’s going on at the exact midway point of...
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EMs and IFRAMEs
Those funky IE-only <iframe> attributes we were injecting in themes have been adjusted to be 100% valid XHTML. Same for the Submit, Ask, and Answer forms.
We also switched the Rich Text Editor to use <em> and <strong> tags instead of <i>s and <b>s.
The Tumblr Gem →
Last night, I released the Tumblr gem, a command line utility and Ruby library for interacting with Tumblr.
Mark Wunsch created this full-featured Ruby library, with a corresponding command-line tool, for posting to Tumblr via the API. If you’re a developer or a command-line geek like me, you should check this out.
Ben's Tumblr Theme TextMate Bundle is up! →
It can also be used with E Text Editor on Windows.
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It's Tumblr Tuesday!
In case you haven’t heard: Go add your favorite blog to the Tumblr Directory right now!
Here are five Tumblr blogs you recommended for the directory which caught our eye.
Godzilla Haiku
No place in this world
For a rampaging poet
This lizard’s deep thoughts
Halo: Reach Dev Blog
This game will kick ass
I used to be good at these
Please don’t teabag me
Jesus, Kirk and...
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More Directory goodness
After several attempts at creating a decent way for new and experienced users to find interesting blogs, we finally have a Directory that works pretty darned well. In fact, your recommendations are resulting in thousands of new followers for some your favorite blogs!
So we’re giving the Directory some more love this week:
Instead of being reset every Tuesday, your recommendations now stick...
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Group blog author avatars are now available!
Make your group blog a bit more personal by showing each post’s author on the Dashboard.
You can enable author avatars by selecting Customize → ”Advanced” → ”Show author avatars”.
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